Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-14
Odds and Inds
Ii is figured that 26, 600 divorces are
granted in this country annually.

granted in this country annually.
Some women never want to marry
until they think they are too old to do
so.
A burglar seldom does his work
alone. He generally has jimmy with
him.
At the present rate OF decrease the
national debt will disappear in twelve
years.
A coquette is like an old war vet
eran-sbe goes through many engage
ments.
Nature is already having her field
sports. The first event is a backward
spring.
A premature wrinklen is one that
comes in wOman's face before she is
married.
Never allow a child 10 use a short
slate pencil or lead pencil. 1t spoils
the naDuWrltlng.
A cross old batchelor suggests that
births should be announced under the
head Of new music.
In the last twelve years the United
States has received 1900, 900 emigrants
from the Old World.
An unknown quantity may be de-
scribed as what you get when you get
a quart box of strawberries.
The use Of the telephone is becom-
ing very common in Germany. Ber-
lin alone has 5 5,507 stations.
The first letter the new postmaster
at Kempton, ILL.,, had received in six
years was the one containing his COM
mission.
The chiet of police at AloaLy, n. Y,
has notified all keepers Of gambling
dens ia that city 10 discontinue their
business.
The first iron boat is thought 10 have
been built in l77TI, on the river Foss,
10 Yorkshire. Ii was fifteen feet long
and made Of sheet iron.
Carrie BrowD," once famous in cir
Gus circles rs the champion juvenile
bareback rider OF the world, is now q
prominent officer of the Salvation
Army.
The United States revenue returns
show 4,033 saloons in Iowa, !, ,s52 in
Kansas, 4i6 in Vermont and l,262 in
Maine-all sta:es in which prohibition
prohibits in theory.
The Last Chicago scare is that the
Socialists are 10 rise in 1859, seize the
government, wiring the neck of the
American eagle, aud scatter blood on
the moon generally.
Clara Louise kellogg has entered
the field against the high hat. When
she appears on the stage she smiling
ly requests the ladies to take them off
50 she can see the gentlemen.
A lawyer asked woman on the
witness stand her age, aud she prompt
~ replied: "Old enough To have
sold milk for you to drink when bs-
by, and haven't got my pay yet.
AT her drawing room Queen Nicto-
ria personally receives only eighty
ladies, aud when that number have
been presented sbe retires and leaves
the Princess # Wales 10 receive the
rest.
Pfaff's, once famous beer shop
near the Hoffman House, New York
city. the resort of the Bohemisns of
the metropolitan press, has ceased to
be. II has been swallowed up by the
hotel.
Spite Of papal denunciatIon, crems-
tories are steadily increasing in Italy
FIfty-two have been mentioned. lt
will be n great gain when the common
sense OF the race is applied TO this
subject.
That's one Of our leading citizens, "
said Chicago man, pointing tos dis
tinguished individual on the street
"Ah," said the stranger, "Msyor "
"N.no," said Wbitewheat, mot ex-
aetly. He's gambler"
The origin of geometry is ascribed
! to the Egyptians. who, having their
landmarks annually washed away by
inundatiou, in efforts to devise a plan
! for readily restoring them, discovered
the principles Of geometry.
A regular epidemic OF ,oin-match
ing has broken out In Wall street,
New York. About one-hslf Of the
members Of the Stock Exchange in
dulge In the pastiiue. a complaint
has been filed against them.
These are the costs OF various col.
lege gymnasiums: Harvard, $4,000;
F; Yale, $4,000; Princeton, si3s,0oo;
{ Amherst, se5, 900; Columbia. sl5s, 200;
; Williams, $4,000; Cornell. $40, Ls'
!. high, $40, 900 and Dartsmouth t25 600.